The Forestry Forum

a friend , customer of mine brought me a dug up stump of a black walnut to slab off for him along with some other stuff. after dulling my blade finishing his other stuff i set this stump and roots on the mill. i cut 4   4'' cuts and didnt hit anything but on the last cut the blade didnt come out! i think it hit a rock that was completely grown over.stuck anyway. my advice ,and i told my friend ,mining happens below ground not wood cuttin     pc

Ingrown rocks and dirt comes with the territory of sawing stumps.  :)  But some might beautiful figured grain can be found in there too. I have one here that I might talk burlkraft into taking off my hands (whenever he has a dull blade to shove into it  :) ).

I was sawing a walnut stump and hit nails.  Seems that this stump came from a creek bank, and had once had a posted sign nailed to it.  Stumps are sawed by the hour + blades.  And that by the hour includes power washing.

Yessiree bobcat!

It has always amazed me what I hit in stumps.  I always expected to hit stuff that had been hammered into the thing. But it never dawned on me that there would be stuff in there that someone had leaned against the tree years ago.  I've seen pieces of automobile, bicycles, tractor equipment, hinges, insulators, pieces of old horse shoes, bridle, knives, rocks, bottles, and most anything else that you can imagine someone throwing to the bottom of a young tree to get it out of the way.  Not to mention the stuff from the ground that the stumps grow around as they put their roots down. 

I'd saw them, but didn't really want to do it.